Teresa Torres argues that generative AI changes many product-management practices (prompt engineering, context engineering, orchestration, and evals) but that core fundamentals still determine whether a product…
In this podcast episode, Teresa Torres and Petra Wille trade stories about the formative experiences that shaped their product careers. Teresa recounts running a startup through the 2008 recession, where prioritization…
This podcast episode features three leaders from Neople, a company building 'digital coworkers' that automate work such as customer support, invoice processing, and drafting emails. The conversation traces how Neople…
Teresa Torres explains the product operating model, a set of first principles popularized by Marty Cagan, which focuses on achieving customer and business outcomes rather than shipping outputs. She contrasts it with the…
Crazy Egg's team tested 19 AI website builders by generating 51 pages (product, course, and local service pages) and scoring them against 60 criteria covering usability, conversion design, and SEO. The author finds AI…
In this end-of-year episode of All Things Product, Petra Wille and Teresa Torres reflect on what they want to be known for in their work. They examine why the word 'legacy' can feel heavy and propose gentler framings…
Lenny Rachitsky argues that non-technical people should use Claude Code, which he frames as a local-feeling AI agent that can act on files and tools on a computer. The post walks through installation steps, shows five…
Jason Fried argues that a new product does not need to be revolutionary or disruptive to succeed. He describes how whole product categories can drift toward ever-greater complexity, with competitors one-upping each…
Hiten Shah argues that building in public began as a risky, honest practice where founders shared unfinished thinking to find like-minded people and sharpen their own conviction. As audiences grew and tools for…
Teresa Torres interviews SallyAnn DeLucia and Jack Zhou of Arize AI about building Alyx, the AI agent that helps teams debug, optimize, and evaluate AI applications. The team describes scrappy beginnings in Jupyter…
Teresa Torres argues that teams under pressure to keep up with continuous customer interviews are turning to generative AI for synthesis, and that this often backfires. The core problem is that AI cannot supply context…
Jason Fried argues that the most interesting design is the kind that changes how people behave, not just how something looks or works. He uses the power reserve indicator on the A. Lange & Söhne Lange 1 watch as an…
In this podcast conversation, Teresa Torres and host Petra Wille discuss Product Talk Academy's shift from purely instructor-led cohort courses toward on-demand learning options. Torres explains why she resisted…
Teresa Torres and Hamel Husain discuss how to evaluate and debug AI products with a scientist's mindset. Hamel draws on his machine learning background at Airbnb and GitHub, and his consulting work with startups like…
Teresa Torres follows up her home-use AI article with a practical guide to using large language models at work, organized into increasingly complex categories: translation, doing the work, research, writing, and coding…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discuss how they use AI as strategic thought partners across writing, coding, and product work rather than as ghostwriters. Petra describes a voice-first, bilingual transcription workflow…
Executive coach Jack Cohen introduces GAIN, a framework for giving feedback by framing it around the gain people can achieve rather than the pain to avoid. It walks through each element (Goal, Actions, Impacts, Next…
Jason Fried responds to a young entrepreneur in his mid-20s who sold a business and now holds a couple million dollars in liquid cash, asking whether to invest it, start a new company, or do something else. Fried's…
This episode of Just Now Possible features the eSpark team discussing how they built Teacher Assistant, an AI feature that helps K–5 teachers align eSpark's supplemental lessons with district-mandated core curricula…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille explore AI evals: what they mean, why they matter beyond quality assurance, and how teams can build them. Drawing on Teresa's experience building the Interview Coach tool, the conversation…
Teresa Torres interviews Ellen Brandenburger, a former product leader at Stack Overflow, about how the company responded when ChatGPT abruptly changed developer behavior. Ellen describes the creation of Overflow AI, a…
Teresa Torres argues that people feel overwhelmed by AI but can build practical skills by starting with simple, everyday uses of large language models. She presents a graded set of use cases, from basic search…
Marty Cagan argues that Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs)—technical product creators who embed with customers to deeply understand their problems—are a powerful practice that applies well beyond the hard, high-stakes…